Debian Project at several conferences and trade fairs

January 26th, 2011

The Debian Project is pleased to announce that it will be present at several events in the coming weeks, ranging from developer oriented conferences to user oriented trade fairs. As usual, upcoming events are also listed on our website.

Several Debian Developers will be present at the linux.conf.au, including Debian Project Leader Stefano Zacchiroli, who will give a talk titled Who the bloody hell cares about Debian? on this Friday the 28th of January.

On the 2nd and 3rd February, Debian will be present with a booth at the Cloud Expo Europe 2011, in London, United Kingdom. Our booth will be part of the .ORG stand in Barbican Exhibition Hall 1.

On the 5th and 6th February, Debian will be present with a booth at the Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM). While the final program hasn't been announced, yet, the preview already lists some Debian related sessions, including an introduction to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD or the piuparts.debian.org service. There will also be a cross distribution development room with Debian participating.

At the end of February, the Debian project will be present at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE), taking place from the 25th to the 27th in Los Angeles.

From the 1st to the 5th of March, Debian will again be present at the CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. Thanks to the support of Univention and the Deutsche Messe AG, Debian will again be co-exhibitor at the booth of Univention in Hall 2, Stand B26.

From the 19th to the 20th of March, Debian will again be present at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage in Chemnitz, Germany with a booth. There will also be some Debian related presentations, but the final programm hasn't been announced, yet.

The Debian Project invites all interested persons to said events, ask questions, take a look at Debian 6.0 Squeeze, exchange GPG-Fingerprints to boost the Web of trust and get to know the members and the community behind the Debian Project.

About Debian

The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the largest and most influential open source projects. Over three thousand volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software. Translated into 70 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal operating system.

Contact Information

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